Chambers, Marianne. He Deceives Himself. Dilly.
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Publishing | Marianne Chambers | Her title-page presents the subscription as a matter of charity by mentioning the death of her father, It also quotes Pope
's self-deprecating apology for writing: I left no calling for this idle trade. Chambers, Marianne. He Deceives Himself. Dilly. title-page |
politics | Mary Caesar | She acted on her Jacobite principles in attending parliamentary debates, reading the memoirs of statesmen, and visiting Tory detainees in prison. Indeed, though she never questioned that men were intended to manage public affairs, she... |
politics | Mary Caesar | From the time she began writing her Jacobite credo in 1724, MC
worked on constructing a domestic cult for the edification of family and friends in the Jacobite faith, in which archives, pictures and poetry... |
Other Life Event | Elizabeth Thomas | Pope
mercilessly portrayed Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 127 |
Other Life Event | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | From the late 1720s onwards, Lady Mary's life was punctuated by the regular appearance of new attacks by Alexander Pope
in his poems: sometimes unmistakable, sometimes so concealed that probably only their immediate circles would... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Beverley | The report of her death may have been optimistic in calling her an actress of some celebrity at Covent garden and Drury lane Theatre. “Reverse of Fortune”. The Guardian and Public Ledger. |
Occupation | William Lisle Bowles | WLB
's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith
and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied... |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
Occupation | John Donne | During the later seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Donne's writings were largely forgotten or disapproved of. In June 1741 the London Magazine printed a regularised (to modern eyes butchered) version of Goe, and catche a... |
Occupation | William John Courthope | WJC
became Professor of Poetry at Oxford
and was responsible for finishing an important edition of Alexander Pope
which had been begun by Whitwell Elwin
. As an editor he tended to read Pope's later... |
Occupation | Edmund Curll | Commentators seem unanimously to have believed Pope
's pamphlet claim that he dosed Curll with an emetic to punish him for illicitly publishing Court Poems on 26 March 1716—though since Pope also claimed to have... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Pym | BP
's other juvenilia include poems and short stories published in the literary magazine at her boarding school, Liverpool College
: The Sad Story of Alphonse, Henry Shakespeare, Adolphe, Satire (an imitation... |
Literary responses | Anne Dacier | A modern biographer thinks she might have been more appreciative of Pope's opinions if she had better understood his English. Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale. |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 202 |
Literary responses | Anne Finch | Barbara McGovern
has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope
's hostility to AF
. In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 102ff |
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